- Marie Messereau, with her sister Helene and brother Paul, emigrates from France to America, the land of promise, accompanied by Helene's German fiancé, Hans Grossman. The four find employment, and all goes well until Paul and Hans are called back to Europe to fight in World War I. Robert Vorhis falls in love with Marie, but because a rejected suitor tells him that Marie's reputation is stained, he accompanies his parents to California to forget her. Helene contracts tuberculosis, and when Marie, in seeking the location of a hospital for consumptives, asks several men their address, she is arrested for street walking. Robert's father, Judge Vorhis, acquits her, but upon returning home, she discovers that Paul and Hans have been killed in battle and that her sister has committed suicide. Broken, Marie decides to return to France and is about to sail when Robert, who has been unable to forget her, rushes up the gangplank and takes her in his arms.
- Evil pursues Marie Messereau, a little French girl, who came to this country with her brother and sister in search of better things. The brother is called to the French colors, leaving the two girls alone. Then the sister falls ill, and Marie cannot afford to give her the trip to the mountains that the doctor orders. At last fortune seems to smile. She wins the love of Robert Vorhis, the son of a wealthy judge, but a jealous friend tells Robert she is a fallen woman, and her apparent confession, due to her lack of understanding of English, drives Robert away. Then comes word that their brother and her sister's sweetheart have fallen, and this brings about the collapse of Helene. Marie, seeking to locate a charitable home, is suspected of accosting men, and is taken to the night court. Meantime the waiting sister, doomed to death, commits suicide, and the detective sent to investigate Marie's story finds her dead. Marie is released, and at last the clouds blow away from the brave little stranger, fighter upon the fields of honor in a strange land.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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